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Stories like the beard hunter are a pstiche/homage to DC's silver age. They're playful and surreal in that poptastic kind of way for the 80's and 90's that silver age stuff was in the sixties. I don't really think there is a weak spot in the run, personally. Like Animal Man it's perfectly formed. I think the key to Morrison's run is the first Brotherhood of Dada run where they romp through different artistic styles. That was what Morrison's run was, on some level, a romp through different comic book styles, from silver age DC right through Watchmen realism to the Liefeld lark of Doom Force. But that's just my thoughts.
Although I am trying to recall the scarlet harlot storyline. But ones I can recall are the Rhea Jones arc, which is basically the in space book that every comic homages, see Robinson's Starman run for his version, I'm not sure which book started the journey into space mythos, I'm thinking GL but I might be wrong, The Flex Mentallo thing is, in my mind, an Alan Moore thing, I mean he even looks like Alan Moore at the start, and the Monsieur mallah issue was pop perfection, probably the single most best story ever written that nicked its title from a Smith's song.
If parts leave you cold, well, there's no accounting for taste. I can't tell you why it leaves you cold, it just does. Did you read it when it came out, or after. I always wonder just how much that monthly wait adds or detracts from the reading of comics? |
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